Pink Funky Little Valentine Nails and Naked Pictures

Hello gentle readers.

Today my pink Valentine's kick continued with a funky little Valentine look with OPI Flower to Flower from last Summer's collection and some decals and jelly hearts I picked up at a local drugstore. I applied three coats of Flower to Flower, a pretty, intense fuchsia pink with a subtle silver shimmer that glows and fires softly in sunlight.

I had to apply three coats because this polish, while pretty is a brat. It was streaky, left bald spots and generally fought me tooth and nail. Something I am not accustomed to when working with an OPI polish. I applied my decals, then noticed that some of my nails were doing some pretty alarming bubbling. Ack! I thought at that point I would have to clean it all off and start over, so thinking my mani was toast, anyway I grabbed a bottle of Dare to Wear topcoat I won in a giveaway and decided to give it a test drive. As a topcoat, it didn't perform all that well. It was thin and not very shiny.

But! Amazingly enough, it smoothed out all of the bubbles in my polish! Holy shitballs! I went from "Great, now I have to re do my nails!" to "Hey, my nails look great!" in the matter of just a few minutes. I need to try this stuff on a few more bubbly polish jobs before I can state that it is a bubble smoothing wonder polish, but so far, I am pretty happy.

I topped everything with Seche. :)

If you enlarge, you will see the loverly shimmer. And, look, mom! No bubbles!

I apologise for my not so hot photographs, my camera batteries were dying and I had to fire off as many shots as I could, as fast as I could. I wasn't able to take a lot of time to futz around. lol

Okay, I took some naked pictures today, as well. Get your mind out of the gutter and one handed surfers, move along. I am talking about my nails. Not my bod. Trust me, that isn't something anyone wants or needs to see... ;) lol

You can see the patches on my middle, ring and pinkie finger nails. Sigh... Stupid delicate nails.

I don't actually use that Orly Tough Cookie. I tried it a few times and my nails started chipping. Coinkeedink? I am afraid that stuff dries my nails out. I might just dump the treatment and use the bottle for a franken.

Okay, there you have it. Pink nails, funky decals, no bubbles and nudity. What more could we want in one nail blog posting?